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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. - Brander Matthews Add to Favorite List A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher. - Robert Burke Add to Favorite List Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. - Henry S. Canby Add to Favorite List Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. - Clarence Day Add to Favorite List Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre. - Gail Godwin Add to Favorite List He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche Add to Favorite List Learning makes a man fit company for himself. - Thomas Fuller Add to Favorite List I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. - Patrick White Add to Favorite List I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Add to Favorite List If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. - Rudy Manikan Add to Favorite List If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards. - Rudyard Kipling Add to Favorite List On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. - Malcolm Bradbury Add to Favorite List One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. - Charles William Eliot Add to Favorite List One father is more than 100 schoolmasters. - George Herbert Add to Favorite List One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung Add to Favorite List

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it. - Charles Caleb Colton Add to Favorite List Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. - Native American saying Add to Favorite List The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. - J. Frank Dobie Add to Favorite List The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - A. B. Alcott Add to Favorite List Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. - David T. Kearns Add to Favorite List Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. - Joseph Joubert Add to Favorite List Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. - David Lodge Add to Favorite List We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. - Roger Scruton Add to Favorite List When there are two PhD's in a developing country, one is Head of State and the other is in exile. - Lord Samuel Add to Favorite List You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. - Marvin Minsky Add to Favorite List The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. - Will Rogers Add to Favorite List The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Add to Favorite List The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent. - Leon Eisenberg Add to Favorite List The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years. - A. Lawrence Lowell Add to Favorite List

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde, President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.' - Walter T. Tatara Add to Favorite List There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. - Walt Whitman Add to Favorite List Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. - A. E. Wiggan Add to Favorite List By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. - Latin proverb Add to Favorite List Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. - G. C. Lichtenberg Add to Favorite List A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. - John Ciardi Add to Favorite List Education is indoctrination, if you're white - subjugation if you're black. - James Baldwin Add to Favorite List The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. - Antisthenes Add to Favorite List Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. - Raymond Queneau Add to Favorite List A good education should leave much to be desired. - Alan Gregg Add to Favorite List 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had been to night school. - George Ade Add to Favorite List Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. - Alfred North Whitehead Add to Favorite List Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. - John Wolfenden Add to Favorite List A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana Add to Favorite List No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

- T. S. Eliot Add to Favorite List It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. - T. S. Eliot Add to Favorite List Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Adams Add to Favorite List You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. - Finley Peter Dunne Add to Favorite List If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. - Derek Bok Add to Favorite List It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. - William Ellery Channing Add to Favorite List There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. - Samuel Johnson Add to Favorite List Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats Add to Favorite List Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas Huxley Add to Favorite List Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu. - William Howard Taft Add to Favorite List Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your selfconfidence. - Robert Frost Add to Favorite List We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. - Northrop Frye Add to Favorite List Soon learnt, soon forgotten. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan Add to Favorite List

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste, well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed. - Flannery O'Connor Add to Favorite List Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce Add to Favorite List The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all. - Heinrich Heine Add to Favorite List The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. - Alfred North Whitehead Add to Favorite List John Milton called his school, Christ College, 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. - John W. Gardner Add to Favorite List To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. - John Ruskin Add to Favorite List Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud Add to Favorite List Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't. - L. L. Hendren Add to Favorite List Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living. - James Mason Wood Add to Favorite List The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Barzun Add to Favorite List The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. - Albert Goldman Add to Favorite List Whenever I'm asked what college I attended, I'm tempted to reply, Thornton Wilder'. - Garson Kanin Add to Favorite List Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never! - Peter Cooper Add to Favorite List Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner Add to Favorite List I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

- Clark Kerr Add to Favorite List All learning has an emotional base. - Plato Add to Favorite List Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. - Greek proverb Add to Favorite List Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope Add to Favorite List There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Add to Favorite List He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint. - Dave Barry Add to Favorite List College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? - David Wood Add to Favorite List It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra. - Herbert Prochnow Add to Favorite List Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate! - Jay Leno Add to Favorite List My husband managed to cram four years of college into five. - Judy Hampton Add to Favorite List One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want, call us and we'll show you how to live without it." - Anonymous Add to Favorite List She's an honor student. She's always saying, "Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor." - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked, "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?" - Todd Anderson Add to Favorite List I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up." - Lenny Bruce Add to Favorite List The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language, but they come in handy in college football yells. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift. - Dave Barry Add to Favorite List Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked, "The river or the state?" - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369." - Anonymous Add to Favorite List I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. - Joan Welsh Add to Favorite List We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store Back to School Sale. - Brian Morgan Add to Favorite List I went to a high school that was so dangerous, the school newspaper had an obituary column. - Rocky Ray Add to Favorite List "Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking." - Larry Wilde Add to Favorite List Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.

- Chad Morgan Add to Favorite List Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates. - Anonymous Add to Favorite List Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week; the sadness, the joy, . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll. - Melissa Amernick Add to Favorite List Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. - Horace Mann Add to Favorite List Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou Add to Favorite List What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? - Cicero Add to Favorite List Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Samuel L. Clemens Add to Favorite List The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Add to Favorite List 'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope Add to Favorite List There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. - Will Rogers Add to Favorite List Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. - Martin H. Fischer Add to Favorite List If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. - Benjamin Franklin Add to Favorite List Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde Add to Favorite List